Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The city and county of Cork were placed
under the minor clauses of the crimes act.
Emperor William Of Germany has gone to
Wernigerode to hunt on the estates of Count
Won Stolberg.
Sir William Blunt and Poor Law Guardian
Roche, who were arrested Sunday at Wood
ford, were yesterday remanded for hearing.
Admiral Luce has sent the Dolphin to rem
der all possible assistance to the training
ship Portsmouth.
The brig NJ. C. Haskell, before reported
to have been lost, floated this afternoon and
proceeded to Boston in tow.
Sixteen inches of snow fell last night at
Desdwood, OAK, Monday. Sixteen below
zero.
The boilers in the Lawrence iron and steel
works at Ironton, Ohio blew up Monday
morning, killing and seriously iujuring
seventeen men.
The grand jury ignored the bill against
Timothy Coughlin, section boss, who is sup
posed to be responsible for the Chatsworth
disaster.
Minister of War Ferron has assented to a
reduction OF the war estimates for France by
a million eight thousand. The budget reduc-
tion aggregates S5 100000.
Liza Weber, one of the original British
Blonde Brigade" that included Lydia Thomp-
son. Ada Harland and Pauline Markham, died
at Buffalo, N. Y, Monday.
Schooner J. G.. Anger of New York, in
port at Vineyard Haven, with cargo of
lime, is on fire. Every effort is being made
to smother the fire.
E. Walsh, proprietor of "The People,"
Wexford paper in Dublin, has been sentenced
to six months imprisonment for publishing
reports of meetings of suppressed branches
of the league. An appeal was allowed.
The barge Oriental, coal laden, from
Charlotte to Toronto, in tow. broke her tow
ing line during the severe weather last night,
and sank at Pert Dollhouse with all on board.
Four men and one woman were lost.
The schooner G. O. ID. is ashore three
miles east of Port Burwell, Ont, "a total loss.
The light house on the weatern pier is par
TALLY destroyed.
The Walker coal pit at Neat Castle, Eng,
is on fire. Three miners were rescued but
were terribly burned. Six were taken out
dead and 2l rescued alive.
The republican conference at New York
Monday night decided to nominate John W.
Knox for comptroller and Delaney Nicoll for
District Attorney.
The imperilled schoolship is not the
Portsmouth but The Saratoga. The wind has
got around to the northwest and started for
New York.
During the Heavy wind storm which pre-
vailed at Mitchell, Ont, Monday morning,
frame house occupied by Mr.. Green and
and family blew down and Green and a
female servant were killed,
A Iooai ,aror s,atas he, pros;Jan, DbJ
lips of the defunct Columbian bank of Phila-
delphia, has sailed for France. The belief
is general that he left to escape criminal
prosecution.
jeff Davis, wife and two daughters passed
through Montgomery, en- route for Macon,
Ala. The train was welcomed by salute of
100 guns and thousands of people. The la
dies bad a car loaded with flowers.
There were 90 new cases and two deaths at
Tampa, Fla, Monday, from yellow fever.
More physicians and nurses are expected i'm
mediately. The weather is warmer and the
fever is spreading.
The hurricane at Fort Colborn, Ont. to-
day is the worst storm for several years.
Barns, sheds. outhouses, fences, chin
car shed was blown down and three coaches
were blown off the track and turned bottom
side up.
Testimony developed at the inquest into
great loss of life, attending the burning of
the Opera Comique, in Paris, the evidence
taken indicate most incredible carlessness,
and want of system in the management of
the theatre.
A large vessel is going to pieces on the
beach at Noble, ten miles east of Cleveland,
Ohio. The waves are beating the ship to
pieces and the crew are lashed to the rigging.
The life-saving crew have rowed to the scene
in their boats.
The three masted schooner Zach Chandler,
from Ashtabula for Escanuba, with coal, was
totally wrecked Sunday night on the bar off
Noble Station. The crew were lashed to the
masts all night and were rescued in the morn
ing.
1t 10 reported that the all tight barrel
coopers of Chicago, about 1000 in number,